The Russian sailor in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is not the hero of the novella‚ but Marlow’s identification of him as a harlequin who presents an "unsolvable problem" leaves readers similarly wondering what to make of the enigmatic character. He seems to reside like the "meaning" of one of Marlow’s tales‚ "not inside like a kernel but outside‚ enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze."2 Marlow’s shifting responses to the Russian sailor and his own psychological imperatives
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In this recent Ninth Circuit case the issues centered on compatibility between video games. Accolade copied a Sega video game to obtain compatibility with the Sega Genesis game system. Accolade decompiled the machine readable object code from a Sega game in order to achieve compatibility with the Sega system for games that it wished to independently create and market. Accolade then created a manual containing only the functional specifications of this decompiled code and not any of Sega’s actual
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Single-Title Market Opportunity Financial Analysis A financial analysis of the performance of Harlequin in the North American market indicated that the firm had captured over 80% of North American series romance market by 1990. However‚ its market share for the women’s fiction market was only 5% indicating a significant overlap in the readership of series romance fiction and other fiction stories. C4 Firms Harlequin Simon and Schuster Harper/Avon Total Market Share 19.4% 7.6% 6.4% 33% The C4 for the
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Issue Harlequin is the largest distributer of romance series novels but is faced with a slow growth in series novels. Harlequin needs to decide whether they should expand into title-by-title books and how they will position themselves if they chose to do so. Analysis Harlequin is faced with the decision of how they should increase their unit sales and increase their overall revenues. By continuing in series novels‚ Harlequin will not be able to see growth in their company as unit sales are
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Jonathan Pagan December 15‚ 2012 Period 7 Honors English Ms. Chinea Albert Einstein – a Condensed Biography Einstein. Is there a single person in our day and age who has not heard that name? For just about everyone‚ the name ‘Einstein’ conjures up images of an almost supernatural genius‚ whose intellectual abilities far surpassed that of the rest of the population. His name has even grown to become an adjective – describing someone as an ‘Einstein’ implies that they are incredibly
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Metry 1 Mira Metry Frankenbush- 6 APUSH 30 March 2014 The Story of a Pill In the United States today‚ there are about 62 million women who are in their childbearing years (15-44). However‚ not all of them are currently having kids‚ thanks to the use of contraceptives. About 62% of these women are currently using some type of contraceptive and 99% have used at least one method of contraceptive in her life-time (guttmacher.org). These methods of birth control that prevent life-changing effects
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Harlequin Five Forces Analysis Threat of Entry High economies of scale required. For an entrant to gain success in romance novel market‚ it must possess mature sales‚ production‚ and distribution to operate effectively‚ which also leads to great risk. High product differentiation required. Other companies start to add more features while Harlequin products remain relatively unchanged. Significant capital requirement required. This is evident in Simon and Schuster’s case‚ in which it bears a high
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Arailym 1) What is an enterprise? What is the role of the enterprise? Discuss with examples. An enterprise is an activity or a project that produces services or products. There are essentially two types of enterprise: * Business enterprises‚ which are run to make a profit for a private individual or group of individuals. This includes small business. * Social enterprises‚ which function to provide services to individuals and groups in the community. Business enterprises There are lots of
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Nissim Ezekiel’S “Enterprise” ‘Enterprise’ is an allegory of human condition on this planet and of the frequent efforts‚ failure and frustrations to which man is subject by the very nature of earthly life. The poet describes a spiritual pilgrimage where each pilgrim faces difficulties and disillusionment along the way. Thus‚ in the ‘Enterprise’ a group of people undertake a journey moved by noble aspirations‚ but it all ends in failures and frustrations as is usually the case with human attempts
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1- Describe the challenge faced by Sega in the context of 3-D CE; what must they do in product development‚ process development‚ and supply chain development. Challenges faced by Sega can be broken down into several categories: Consumer: o Sega wants to provide the consumer with a quality home video game that provides the top of the line graphics and animation capabilities at a low price as the consumer is highly sensitive to the price. Thus providing such a quality product to a price sensitive
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